Back to Work

Well I am back to work part time right now. Its amazing how fast the maternity leave went. Where did my time go? Oh that's right Holidays...hehe  I have had a great maternity leave with my little Livvy Pie. These past 8 weeks have really flown by. Part of me is glad to be back at work and exercising my brain in different ways than before. I am not dealing with just diapers and feedings and little smiles and hugs, but doing analysis and talking to others besides Liv.

But on the other hand I won't be getting as many smiles and hugs from my cutie. Luckily the next few weeks I will still see her most of the day as Mike and my dad are going to be her care takers until she goes to daycare on the 4th of February.

This time around though I feel it's going to be easier. First off I am working from home full time now, so pumping and breaks will be a lot easier as I can still just sit at my desk. I don't have to book the mother's room and make sure I can get in at the times when I don't have meetings. I will be able to fit in my pumpings throughout the day around my meeting schedule a lot easier.  In the mornings it will be easier to, because I won't have to pack up my lunch, my pump and all that to get the girls off to daycare. most of the time Mike will be bringing the girls in, but I still will want to do it a few mornings a week.

So here we go into the working world and being the mama to two beautiful little girls!

It's Official

I have been working for a health insurance company for the past few years and I have been loving my job. I love what I do, the people I work with and my flexible schedule. It's been great being able to work from home and my boss was great when I needed to work from home an extra day so I could pump and still work and not mess up my schedule.

The weekend before Labor day I got a call from an old boss of mine. She works for another area within the IT department that I am in at my company. She had a great opportunity for me and I couldn't pass it up. After talking with the director in my current department, my current manager I decided to apply for the job. Two weeks ago I received an offer and decided to take it.

After 4 years of working in the same area of the company I am moving to a completely different position. Instead of helping work on requirements and solutions for the projects within IT that the Clinical Users work with, I will be working on Continuous Improvement. My official title is IT Process Improvement Project Manager - Sounds so official doesn't it!!

Anyway I start in a week and I am so excited and nervous at the same time. I am sad to leave a WONDERFUL!!!! Group of people that I work with. I have made some great friends - Jess, Nicole, Jane, Lisa and Amber to name a few...plus so many more! I can't believe all the people that I have met along the way and I wouldn't change my career path no matter what. I learned a TON about the SLDC cycle and what it takes to write a great requirement and what it means to test that requirement.. but I am so excited to start this new chapter in my work career!!

We got it!

Mike got the call yesterday from the people that own the timeshare and they accepted our offer for the 1 week that we wanted. It happens to be a unit right next to his parents which is even better. So we are super excited. Plus it's so cheap we don't have to take a loan out. So we transferred the money and will be getting in touch with the guy sometime next week so we can meet him at a bank up in Fridley and give him the cashiers check and also get the deed signed over and notarized. The even better news is that the guy said that if the transfer doesn't happen with the Breezy Point resort in time for our week up there that he is going to put through the paperwork so we can rent it that week. So when we go on vacation this June I will NOT be sleeping on a murphy bed in the living room, but in my own bedroom :) I am super excited.

The bedroom that Mike and I will have is upstairs with the loft overlooking the rest of the place, it has a TV up there as well.  :) This way too Mike's mom can stay up late in their cabin and not keep us up :) She is a night owl. I am so excited for our vacation now and I am even more excited now that I am spending the entire week up there. It will be a lot easier to work at night and stuff if I can be in my own place :) and I only have 16 hours to work, and I told my boss that will probably be spread out over the week and I would be available by phone. Most of it will be Thursday and Friday, but I will probably work a few hours each night when we aren't doing anything and get some documentation done.

It's Been a Rough Week

I have been in CT for the last couple of days and heading back to MN tomorrow - Thank Goodness. It's just been weird. Food hasn't been sounding the greatest, but I have been trying to eat when I can. There isn't a lot of restaurants that sound appetizing..so I have just been trying to deal with it.

Work is actually really crazy. I had a weird thing today in the meeting. All I am going to say is that I felt like I was being attacked for something that I didn't really have control over and then on top of it one specific person who should have backed me up, a level above me, didn't. She stayed quiet and didn't say a darn thing. I was pretty upset. but when you are in a room full of 18 people you can't cry. so luckily one of my co-workers just IM'd me and told me to keep breathing...which was helpful. I am fine now, still upset at this person, I lost a lot of respect for them and made me realize that she isn't there to protect me and that I need to be there for me when I am working and make sure that if I think something needs to be done to either just do it or forward it on and ask....Gotta love big corporations! I should know by now this is how they all work, no matter where you go.

13 Weeks - 1st Trimester

Not much has changed in the past week, except the fact that I am now officially into my 2nd Trimester. I am still feeling great. Going to the Chiropractor has helped GREATLY. I am going to attempt to eat Yogurt this week and see if I can stomach it again. We will see. I am currently traveling in Hartford CT for work. Yeah what a fun thing to do when pregnant, but it could be worse, I could be farther along than I am. I just have to make sure that when I am on the plane that I drink plenty of water and get up often to prevent blood clots in my legs.

My appetite hasn't been the greatest, sometimes I have to force myself to eat. and mostly I am craving carbs, but what's new with that right? I am called the Carb Queen by my family and friends. Other than that, this post is pretty boring and not much else going on.